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to suggest that half a baguette is enough?

333 replies

CoralFish · 18/08/2020 15:29

Preparing a super-healthy (not really) lunch for me and DP of pork pie, cheddar cheese and that bread that comes part baked from the supermarket.

I comment that the bread is packaged as two small baguettes together, so I will have to freeze one once opened. DP says he "could have" a whole baguette. I ask him if he really wants a whole one - we normally share one. He says the same thing again. I read out the suggested serving and calories and say if he really wants a whole one I can freeze half of one, as I definitely don't. He goes off in a huff because I have apparently called him greedy and he only wants half. I cook one baguette.

My point is that at no point did he say he wanted a whole one just that he "could have" a whole one. I thought this was just a suggestion to make it easier wrt freezing.

Me checking the suggested portion size and calories was for myself. I concluded I did not want a whole one, so him having one would make no difference to ease of storage. Admittedly I did not explicitly state this, and I did not need to read it aloud to him, but I was labouring under the misapprehension that he was making a suggestion to try to make things easier, not that he actually wanted a whole one. I did not at any point use the word greedy or mean to imply it.

Was the whole thing just a misunderstanding on both our parts (and he should at the very least snap out of his huff), or am I being unreasonable and should apologise for 'calling him greedy'?

OP posts:
fatgirlslimmer · 18/08/2020 18:46

@InDeoEstMeaFiducia

Who freezes half of those tiny baguettes?
My thoughts exactly.
SeigneurLapindeGrantham · 18/08/2020 18:55

Blimey what a kerfuffle those part baked baguettes are something like 79p in lidl.

I suppose you can indeed suggest half of one is enough but equally he can tell you he wants a whole one.

Alwaysoutofreach · 18/08/2020 18:57

My husband ate 2 of those baguettes today!

Lozz22 · 18/08/2020 19:00

I could probably manage to eat the full baguette plus the pork pie and cheese. Then again I am fat cow 🐮

user1498572889 · 18/08/2020 19:01

@Lozz22
😂 me too.

AlphabetDinosaur · 18/08/2020 19:02

I had a whole one for my lunch today and so did my husband. I've tried having half but then I'm still hungry and just eat other stuff anyway so as I enjoy them I happily have a whole one guilt free.

roarfeckingroarr · 18/08/2020 19:04

Is he overweight?

I would eat a whole one.

Bluntness100 · 18/08/2020 19:06

What does it matter if he’s over weight? It’s not her job to refuse him food,

Lockheart · 18/08/2020 19:10

Bit of a kerfuffle over bugger all really.

If he wanted a whole one there's nothing stopping him putting it in the oven. He's an adult, the OP isn't responsible for providing his lunch.

I agree I would want a whole one as well, but if I wanted one that badly I'd put it in the oven myself!

Lockheart · 18/08/2020 19:11

@lowlandLucky

You are not his Mother.
Exactly, so why couldn't he put his own baguette in the oven?
mummyoneboy19 · 18/08/2020 19:13

I hope you’re happy.

Now I’m having to have cheese, pork pie and baguette for my supper. 😂

FreekStar · 18/08/2020 19:13

www.ocado.com/products/ocado-bake-at-home-white-baguettes-62180011

If it was baguettes like these then I would suggest that half is not enough for a man for his lunch. It would be less calories than two ordinary slices of bread- poor guy's probably starving.

Lockheart · 18/08/2020 19:14

@Sunrise234

He's an adult if he wants a whole one give him a whole one!!

Is this a normal thing for you it sounds so draining!

I'm the type to check serving sizes and calories but if my partner was being nit-picky with me over a baguette I would be out of that relationship asap and going to subway every day

Or as he's an adult, perhaps he could get his own? Then everyone gets what they want portion wise.
FreekStar · 18/08/2020 19:16

Oh that's right- MN world where nobody should do anything for anybody else- especially children over 5 and husbands!

TheUnwindingCableCar · 18/08/2020 19:20

You were being a passive aggressive twat.

Daftasabroom · 18/08/2020 19:22

You don't say whether you have children OP.

If you get to have teenage boys it won't be a half vs a whole, it'll be two vs three. EACH.

C8H10N4O2 · 18/08/2020 19:23

Did you actually call him greedy or did he just derive that from being asked if he wanted a whole baguette?

Because I read your OP as:

  • we normally have half each
  • DH commented he could eat a whole one
  • you looked at the label which said one baguette was two portions
  • asked him if he sure
  • he said yes then went off saying you called him "greedy"

Sounds like something and nothing frankly unless there was some other issue. Its certainly not the case that men need "penis portions" unless they are toiling in the fields all day.

Mind you, if you were the one eating a whole baguette with pork pie and cheese you would have been interrogated to within an inch of your life on your weight and berated for letting a carb cross your lips Grin

Emeraldshamrock · 18/08/2020 19:25

Who freezes half of those tiny baguettes This was my first thought.. Grin
Yabu OP.

Bluntness100 · 18/08/2020 19:28

Exactly, so why couldn't he put his own baguette in the oven

Seriously? Is that what you do? You put your baguette in the oven then your partner has to walk over and put his in? Or vice versa? Because if you do it for the other you’re parenting them?

That’s very odd. Generally whomever is doing it does for both. But you do you. 🤷‍♀️

LunchBoxPolice · 18/08/2020 19:29

Jesus Christ I wish I had your problems

Ohtherewearethen · 18/08/2020 19:30

@Lockheart - surely, in most functioning homes, whoever is making lunch that day for everyone would actually make it for everyone? Not make the other person make their own, identical lunch along side them, both trying to put their portion of baguette in the oven and cut the cheese, etc at the same time, getting in each other's way? I'm pretty sure that's quite a normal set up.

AWiseWomanOnceSaidFuckThisShit · 18/08/2020 19:34

I'm not joking - every now and then I'll buy a packet of these and eat BOTH the fuckers at once. One with tuna, one with egg mayonnaise. Ooof!

TheUnwindingCableCar · 18/08/2020 19:43

Serving suggestions are just a marketing ploy. I never look at them.

Lockheart · 18/08/2020 19:43

[quote Ohtherewearethen]@Lockheart - surely, in most functioning homes, whoever is making lunch that day for everyone would actually make it for everyone? Not make the other person make their own, identical lunch along side them, both trying to put their portion of baguette in the oven and cut the cheese, etc at the same time, getting in each other's way? I'm pretty sure that's quite a normal set up.[/quote]
In most functioning homes adults can feed themselves. Therefore if I wanted something slightly different to what my partner was making I'd sort out the difference myself. Then everyone is happy.

No need for drama.

Lifeisabeach09 · 18/08/2020 19:43

I love this thread. Hilarious.
Let the poor sod eat a whole demi (I assume) baguette, dammit! His body, his choice.
I'd be quite upset if my partner monitored what I ate.